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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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QUESTION:

HE SAID,"HIS FAMILY WILL GO TO ISLAMABAD IN THIS WEEK". (change the narration)
  

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Hi, Please don't write your posts in capital letters. That means you're shouting at us. Anonymous HE SAID,"HIS FAMILY WILL GO TO ISLAMABAD IN THIS WEEK".

  • Hi, Please don't write your posts in capital letters.
  • That means you're shouting at us.
  • Anonymous HE SAID,"HIS FAMILY WILL GO TO ISLAMABAD IN THIS WEEK".
  • I'd change it this way: He said that his family would go to Islamabad that week.
  • However, my sentence in reported speech is ambiguous because " his family " could be understood as the family of the speaker, instead of the family of another man.
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Hi,

Please don't write your posts in capital letters. That means you're shouting at us.
Anonymous HE SAID,"HIS FAMILY WILL GO TO ISLAMABAD IN THIS WEEK".
I'd change it this way:

He said that his family would go to Islamabad that week.

However, my sentence in reported speech is ambiguous because

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